Blog: Australian Field Butchery

This blog post has been revised and updated – please seewww.awm.gov.au/blog/2015/11/04/butcher-and-merchant-western-front-story
The Western Front was epitomised by the brute force of men against machine and each other. Tens of thousands were lost in the maelstrom of war. Inthe horror, friendships were forged that endured even through death.This is the story of one such friendship... Wally Brown was a grocer. He did not necessarily want…